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they are selling off their assets and focusing on selling engine that could be "Reusable". I won't hold my breath.

it was always the "Right approach" and everyone knew that there was nothing in the laws of physics that prohibits this. But you are writing that as if it's still be solved.

No one has ever had a fully reusable orbital rocket.. still to this day. Althought starships got a shot.

the novelty is how to handle such scale.

Sure, if we build a million rockets it'll be cheaper, but how do we USE those rockets and get funding at "relative peace time". SpaceX's real innovation was starlink in allowing it to "Soak up" excess production. Besides the obvious of reusability, which wasn't that "Obvious" considering the temperatures of reentry.

>They take these antibiotics from the metapleural gland

The fact that a gland could arise through natural selection makes over 112 different components from anti-biotics to chemicals blows my mind.

The underlying theory that "random mutation" and errors in the copying of ant DNA created a secretion sac is crazy to me. I imagine this first ant was like the "Mule" in foundation, where he could introduce chemicals to "Control and conquer". There seems to be some underlying learning mechanism built within "Random mutation".

with fire!

or anty-human.

>each ant is basically pretty dumb, and the cool complex behaviors happen as an emergent property of how they respond to the stimuli they recieve (especially all the pheromone messages they get from other ants).

Can't ants be swapped out as humans here?

When i selected game of thrones, it generated an image hapily. When i asked it to do it again but different if gave me a copyright error. When i explained that it had already done it for me, it said, "Oh, Sorry! Here's what you asked for!"

Imagine a nation that had a direct dialogue with their president like that? Nowadays, it's too polarizing.

is it really gone? Tesla will still have a OEM advantage here in the software and internals. Alot of the "Technology" here is the software that does thermal management and the like. Tesla's still charge faster on a supercharger than a ford f-150 would, and i imagine some future where buying a Tesla gets you "Credits" to use at the chargers.

Tesla has much different goals than the other car manufacturers. Although energy sales are only around 5% of total revenue, Tesla expects that to change going forward.

I wonder if they can claim that as a loss and pay less taxes?

There's a video that i can't find, where they show Raptor v1, next to raptor v2. The raptor v1 has all these wires, and tubes and looks crazy, next to it, the raptor 2 looks super sleek and not that complex. They ended up molding everything they needed straight into the block itself. Can only imagine what the v3 designs were since they are now all internal.

But what you get at the end with something like 3000 parts in it's BOM, to something like 20 parts in the BOM, because most of the parts were deleted and integrated directly into the mold.

initially the merlin engines were $2m each, with raptor v2 coming in at under $1m, and they are pushing out 1 Raptor v3 a week now, so i'm sure they've come close to their goals. You might want to push that number up by 50% to get a more realistic estimate, and then by another 100% to include labor, propellant, etc.

$44m per booster starts to sound like a more reasonable number.

SpaceX's Raptors cost about $250k each according to some leaked sources. Given there are 33 engines in the booster, you get 8,250,000 just in engine costs. I would say it's safe to assume around 30% of the cost of flight is in engines, so probably around another 5,775,000 for the rest of the craft bring it in at around $14M for just the booster hard costs. That's not accounting for the $100m crane they've built, labor, propellant, nor the Starship itself which has another 9 engines.

Keep in mind that the RS-25's cost $100m each. If it was atlas, the engines alone would cost $3.6B.

That's the whole philosophy of spaceX and explicitly starship though, right? I mean they literally lauched a water tank up 100 feet and hovered it back down as a demo, then immediately scrapped it and proceeded to build 27 Starships, when not a single one has reached orbit.

building the header tanks in the first place, and testing them is the interation style. If the starship blows up, the header tanks are the least of your worries.

>It is about upholding a free labor market by contract law

The unions negotiate for "All workers" under some kind of umbrella terms that has only sometimes specific prescriptions towards individual companies but always towards industries as a whole. They can dictate things like medical, vision, dental, sometimes day care. But they can also dictate things like work hours, safety, etc.

That all sounds gravy, but what if a company like Tesla wants to dictate 60 hour work weeks for all it's engineers. But that goes against Union Law, so they can't. But what if that's just how the people in the company, and people within that company want to work. That's how Tesla works. When you are getting of job at Tesla, you know exactly that you are signing up for long work hours. It's a company with everyone putting in 70 hour weeks for around 2 years, and springboard into another startup at a higher role, or more cushy FANG.

To give another example from another industry that would not work is the oil fields. We have the OCAW union here in the US but get like 1/4 of what the non-union jobs get. Because OCAW dictates work hours, and a salary but not time to rig. the non-unionized guys go out and work for 18 hours straight, sleep on a the rig for a bit, and get back to work. Again, not allowed under union contract, but if you do that for a couple days and make a bunch of money. Because we have worker pay, OSHA, etc. There is no need for unions here because the minimum labor standards for overtime pay and safety are set by federal standards not the "Union".

"Collective Bargaining" has lost it's sense of "Collective" at the scale it has grown. True collective bargaining has always been by the individuals themselves. Forcing Tesla on a blanket union contract instead specific clauses and prescriptions that they need to implement to be compliant is legalease non-sense.

Continue to watch this space, remember - He created the pebble. The cost of this "Experiment", to put forward a point at a super simple level. reverse engineering architecture and providing a service on top of this would be a huge space, if it were allowed.

Yeah... As an American, i don't get it. Why is the Swedish union forcing the workers at Tesla to sign an arb agreement when they get paid much more than the average union worker in the country?

Does strong union actually result in better pay? If you compare the average software salary from the US to Sweden, it seems like it's doing the opposite, no?

Yeah - and i bet you that small concession is going to be a huge loss for hydro. I'm sure elon eithier is spinning up his own cyber truck steel line or using a different supplier by the end of the year in spite.

Drew Houston probably wanted to see if you were a threat ;) If you had written back and asked about an acquisition/ or how you are focusing on "Taking Syncany to the next level", you might have gotten a response. That was when they were doing their network expansion initiative.

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There are many mechanisms of trading. Some use a couple different oracles and average(more complex but essentially that's what it is). In order to 'minipulate' the oracles, you would get eaten alive by arbitrage. If there's a difference across exchanges, HFT bots will equalize. Chain link takes that to the extreme and requires no oracle, only arbitrage. Since any arbitrage opportunity will be exploited, you can allow the active trading price and take that at face value. You can actually minipulate that price, by selling at a reduced rate but the thesis is that it would be economically disadvantages to do so.

Essentially, Microsoft/ Gmail/ whoever implemented your idea would develop an ecosystem of user generated content. So many different GUI's developed using a specific API to that platform (E.G. Outlook). I can download Outlook, and pick whichever GUI I want, some free, some I pay some outside developer. This 'Saves' Microsoft from ever becoming irrelevent some how, cause it has infinite addaptability. Kind of like Wordpress for email.

Your company is an inspiration and are doing a tremendous service to the world. I am a federal consultant and have a couple of companies in the medical space that I help find and write solicitations for. I'd love to help your company free of charge on anything and everything. I have alot of infrastructure built such as pricing tools, automated solicitation writing, a ton of outreach lists, etc. One such outreach list is of clinical labratory's nationwide with emails to executives and a ton of other information. I also work with a company that sells reagents and contract kits. I've also worked at Tesla on the Supply Chain, Capital Equipment team in the past and can help you procure any reagents or automated Sanger sequencers/ labs who have them. Additionally, I am fairly adept at SQL and Python (Pandas for data) and why I am a regular on Hacker News and how I found the comment. Let me know if there is anything I can do as I would be very proud to contribute anything to your mission.

I agree. To be honest - How long can we go on consuming for before we start to run out of food and other basic nessecities? What happens when food shortages start? 5 missed meals from a revolution, and that revolution will kill more people than the CoronaVirus ever would.

I work on the supply chain, capital expenditure team at an electric car company and I can tell you none of the books listed below will help you. Get an internship or offer to work for someone for free. Supply Chain Management is one of those things that is best learned on the job. You need to 'learn' your supply base/ vendors who do good work, you need to learn how to negotiate things like payment terms instead of just price, how to effectively track you 100+ things you need to buy that day. All the books listed below are great if you are a factory production manager, but will never help you in an entry level supply chain job.

May be a complete digression but it's much easier for me to believe the virus escaped from Wuhan Virology Institute than made the jump from a fish market.

Signed up, and I love how fast it was to create an account. Literally two clicks and 5 seconds as my password is saved in google crome and you sign up through reddit. I think you're on to something with that onboarding process.

Kinda different, kind of the same but i'd love to use an app with much better search than the 'direct search' currently in most aggrogrator/ note apps. If i searched 'quotes' it would rip out and return all the things in italized, in quotes, or things that the algorithm deems as quotes based on it's scrape of the internet; Kinda like google but 'personal search' based on my notes, articles, all my different emails (work, and my 37 different gmail accounts) and websites I frequent (like reddit, hacker news comments, etc.) There was an HN article the other day that got me thinking about this problem, but i can't seem to find it. However, it approached it from a much deeper technical level, utilizing emacs and searching through his code. If you could bring that into an easy to use, consumer facing GUI I think it'd have potential to be pretty game changing.

'Personalized Search, and we don't have to steal your data because you willingly give it to us' - Google

This is great. As much hate as the topic of personal data gets here on HN, it has massive potential to solve alot of societal problems. Imagine a world of open data, but is utilized only for benefit. unfortunately, game theory skews the meaning of 'benefit'.